Alyssa Isetta

“You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.”
― Truman Capote

“I was both relieved and irritated when Reva showed up, the way you'd feel if someone interrupted you in the middle of suicide.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“Loving anybody and being loved by anybody is a tremendous danger, a tremendous responsibility. Loving of children, raising of children. The terrors homosexuals go through in this society would not be so great if the society itself did not go through so many terrors which it doesn’t want to admit. The discovery of one’s sexual preference doesn’t have to be a trauma. It’s a trauma because it’s such a traumatized society.”
― James Baldwin, James Baldwin: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

“You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.”
― James Baldwin, James Baldwin: The Last Interview and Other Conversations